Sealed, maybe, and Billy can only hope they stay that way, because the last thing he wants to do here is ruin the tentative beginnings of friendships he's built. He misses his magic, yes, doesn't know exactly who he is without it, but he's starting to learn. To figure out bits and pieces. To know himself outside of the context of what he was. And if it turns out his magic isn't suppressed...he doesn't know why that worries him so much, only that it does.

"Yeah. I mean, Nida said something a little different, but it was kind of the same spirit, I think." He'd said that maybe Billy was going to be that person and change things, but that he was a good person, and so...so he'd make a good choice. That had been a reassurance he hadn't even known he'd needed.

Rinoa goes on about Soreceresses and their abilities, then, and Billy nods, listening in response. It's a lot of power, and a lot of responsibility, and it's definitely scary. "It is," he answers softly, lacing his fingers together in his lap and looking down at them. "I guess what I have is more like a sorceress than I even thought. I can change things. People. Some things I have to actively try and do--I repeat what I want to happen over and over again, so I can focus my intent--but I don't have to do that for everything. Some things I do without even meaning to. It's unconscious. You know?" Unconscious, and unintended, and now he's so, so worried that that might still be happening without him even knowing it.